Enyimba Assistant Coach, Okechukwu Ejeh, says Sunday’s home defeat by visiting Inter Lagos was a “very bad day for everyone in the Enyimba FC family”, Completesports.com reports. Head Coach, Cameroon-born Emmanuel Deutsch, could not face the media after the game and instead delegated his assistant, Ejeh, who blamed his team’s defeat on their attackers’ wastefulness in front of goal.
Moses Ezekiel headed the Lagosians in front 19 minutes into the game, and Inter held on firmly to inflict Enyimba’s third consecutive defeat of the 2026/2027 EUROMATCH–NPFL season. The defeat left the People’s Elephant without a point from a maximum nine, with a game in hand against 3SC. It is the first time in the club’s history that Enyimba have lost three consecutive league games.
Coach Ejeh captured the mood in the nine-time champions’ camp when asked about his feelings following the outcome of the match. Also Read: EUROMATCH-NPFL: Enyimba Extend Unwanted League Record In Home Defeat To Inter Lagos “Everybody is sad, honestly, it’s a sad day for everybody in the Enyimba family,” Ejeh responded in a pensive tone. “We didn’t win. I think we didn’t really do badly in the game, like you all saw.
Inter Lagos got their chance, I think, their only one chance in the game, and they converted it. “But we got more than ten (10) chances in this game but we couldn’t convert any of them. That’s the game. When you fail to take your chances in a game, you end up getting punished. We really paid dearly for our wastefulness today. “Creating chances in football is always difficult.
But we did the most difficult one today but fell short of converting such chances.”